It took a five­year campaign by Earth Quaker Action Team to get PNC Bank to effectively end their financing of mountaintop removal coal mining. Today at PNC’s Annual Meeting, members of Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) told PNC executives that if they don’t follow through in phasing out their financing of mountaintop removal, Earth Quakers will spring back into action holding PNC to their new policy.

As we win a major victory in our Bank Like Appalachia Matters! campaign, the question of whether we will thank PNC has come up in different places. In short, no we will not. Instead we will be sharing our gratitude with Appalachian activists who continue to lead the fight against mountaintop removal.